President Obama smiles as he leaves after addressing the 67th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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The AP released a shocking poll this week showing that racism is up across America and could cost Obama 5 points—but that poll also contains some weird numbers, blogs mollie at Patheos. First, the less weird: Only 10% think he's Muslim—down from 17% in 2010—while about a quarter still say he's Protestant and about one in 20 say he's Catholic. "It’s not uncommon to see slight variations in data over two years," writes mollie of the Protestant and Catholic numbers. "That all seems reasonable."

But the poll also finds that 18% think he's Jewish and 35% say he has no religion at all—both huge spikes from 0% and 2%, respectively. Plus, only 2% say they don't know his religion, down from 41% two years ago. Who knows what it means, "but it’s exceedingly hard to buy the idea that we’d see this many changes in just two years," blogs mollie. "It also makes it difficult to trust the overall results of the poll." Click for mollie's full blog.

Obama is a self-confessed Muslim. His admission is readily available on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY. "McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith," Obama said voluntarily during and ABC interview. What is it about "my Muslim faith" that so many Americans and Newsers do not understand?

thirdimpact

Nov 3, 2012 6:23 PM CDT

Neither are Christians. Romney is a Mormon, and Obama is a Universalist. Why are we debating this?

Cat-Lover

Nov 2, 2012 12:57 PM CDT

America would be better served if both President Obama and Mitt Romney were atheists: Devoted to serving their constituents rather than a humanly defined deity.